During crisis situations and major global events, our 24×7 media monitoring team develops media and social media summaries for internal or external awareness. Below is today’s example, compiled this morning for the Egyptian demonstrations.

Egypt Media & Social Media Summary – 29 January 2011 (1200 ET)

Produced by The Rendon Group

TOP STORIES:

The formation of the new government.

Prime Minister – Ahmad Shafiq, the former aviation minister, was appointed the new prime minister and will be responsible for forming the new government. (Al-Jazeera)

Vice President – Omar Suleiman was appointed and sworn in as Egypt’s vice president. (Reuters)

Suleiman is the former intelligence chief and the first person to fill the vice presidential role in Mubarak’s 30 years of rule. (Reuters)

Turkish Airlines confirmed that flights will continue between the two countries. (Politico)

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi King Abdullah held a telephone conversation with Mubarak and expressed his support for Mubarak. (CNN, Reuters)

The King strongly condemned the rallies and called the protesters “infiltrators” who sought the demise of their country.

Mubarak assured the King “that the situation is stable.”

The Saudi stock market fell by over 6.43% in response to the crisis in Egypt. (AFP, AP)

SUDAN

Thousands of activists took to Facebook to organize protests on Sunday, which is when the preliminary results of the referendum are to be released. (Al Arabiya)

SYRIA

The Syrian Ambassador to Tehran hoped foreigners would not interfere in the internal affairs of Egypt and Tunisia. (Iranian Republic News Agency)

TUNISIA

Tunisians are closely following the situation in Egypt and are said to be celebrating their role in empowering the Egyptian people to revolt. (WSJ)

UAE

Assistant Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Dr Tareq Al Hedan, said that the ministry is following the situation and is concerned for the well-being of UAE-national tourists and students. (Emirates 24/7)

YEMEN

Violence broke out when 100 protesters attempted to rally in front of the Egyptian embassy in San’a. (WSJ, Al-Jazeera)

Protesters asserted that they will not cease until President Saleh is ousted and meets a similar fate as Mubarak and Ben Ali.

Regarding the resignation of the cabinet: “The measure taken by President Mubarak may be effective in the short-term, but it cannot satisfy the people of Egypt.”

Feizi said that the protests were not just about unemployment, but were related to political and other societal issues in the country.

PressTV reported on protesters’ attempt to break into the Interior Ministry.

El Baradei said that protests would continue until Mubarak steps down, while the Muslim Brotherhood called on a peaceful transfer of power.

World public opinion is on the side of the Egyptian protesters as demonstrations have sprung up internationally in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Greece, France, Turkey and the US.

US VP Biden said that it was not time for Mubarak to resign.

Meanwhile al-Akhbar journalist, Omar Nashabi, said that the US supported dictatorships across the Arab world.

Middle East expert, Azzam Tamimi, said that the US and the West have not learned the lessons from the Tunisian revolution. He predicted that similar revolutions would spread to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen and other Arab nations.

ARAB MEDIA COVERAGE

Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, Tariq Alhomayed, said that all Egyptians, and Arabs, are correct in demanding social, economic and political opportunities, just not through the use of violence.

“We must not burn our own countries to the ground, or destroy what we have gained. We must not increase our losses or deepen our wounds. Our nations are our own; we must protect them, regardless of our demands, or our anger.”

Alhomayed also pointed to hypocrisies made by the US, Britain and France regarding policies in Egypt and Tunisia.

“Washington’s hypocrisy can be seen in its concern with regards to the demonstrations in Egypt, whilst doing nothing to stop the injustice suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis.”

He said it is interesting for Britain to comment on the situation when it responded fiercely during its students’ protest.

“Paris intercepted a shipment of anti-riot equipment that was being sent to the Ben Ali regime [before its collapsed].”

The Gulf News carried an opinion piece in the British Guardian that said while sites like Facebook and Twitter were influential in creating the current dissent in the country, it was the 2008 textile worker demonstration in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla Al Kubra that inspired those on the streets today.

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